Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

On Thursday, I arrived at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference in SeaTac, Washington.  Believe it or not, the city was named after the ...

A scene in my novel The War of the Worlds and Fairies involves a fairy and a pixie demonstrating épée practice—épées are thicker than foil...

I originally would look at J E Oneil’s blog because of her etymology studies.  More recently, I took her up on being a beta reader.  ...

Last year I started reading 1812: The Navy’s War  by George C. Daughan as part of the war's  bicentennial.   It’s a fantastically detai...

The new trailer for Red 2 has Obama in it.  Seriously.  Do not try this at home.  The production company must have paid big money t...

I finally saw World War Z.  The trailer was more exciting.  It pretty much suffered from what I call the John Cusack effect:  Every...

Recently, a bird brought down an F-16 in Arizona when it was sucked into the engine.  (Both men in it survived.)  I showed the article to a...

Cinder , by Marissa Meyer, was the breakout young adult novel of 2012.  This science fiction take on an old fairy tale is well worth your t...

When I was a child, a friend of mine showed me an Army typewriter, which typed in all capital letters.  The tradition goes back to the 1850...